[CentOS-docs] Edit permissions: quick cleanup of QaWiki/AutomatedTests

2011-05-02 Thread Steve Barnes
G'day Not sure how my previous email ended up with an In-Reply-To header for an existing thread...most odd. Wiki username: SteveBarnes As per the guidelines on: http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2cca54dd79e5 I'd like to tidy up this page a bit:

Re: [CentOS-docs] FOG on CentOS Wiki contribution suggestion?

2011-05-02 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 29.04.11 18:32, schrieb Alex Goffe: Ok, changes made! If you could move it that would be great. Okay, done. Could you please explain in the document http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Fog why you are truning off iptables? Thanks, Ralph ___ CentOS-docs

Re: [CentOS-docs] Edit permissions: quick cleanup of QaWiki/AutomatedTests

2011-05-02 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 02.05.11 10:21, schrieb Steve Barnes: I'd like to tidy up this page a bit: http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/AutomatedTests I used it as the basis for developing my test scripts; the formatting for the code examples is a little wonky so I thought I'd tidy it up so others can read

[CentOS-docs] FOG on CentOS Wiki contribution suggestion?

2011-05-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Am 29.04.11 18:32, schrieb Alex Goffe: Ok, changes made! If you could move it that would be great. Okay, done. Could you please explain in the document http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Fog why you are truning off iptables? My thought, reading the

Re: [CentOS-es] Centos no se apaga por comando.

2011-05-02 Thread Christian Montoya
si la verdad, lo busque y poweroff me funciona bien. gracias, El 1 de mayo de 2011 14:27, Xavier Mauricio Tirado L. xtir...@ambiente.gob.ec escribió: poweroff es muy efectivo para mi jeje simple y directo ;) Xavier Mauricio Tirado L. Unidad de Infraestructura Dirección de Tecnología

Re: [CentOS] Rebuilding RHEL from source?

2011-05-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On 2 May 2011 12:22, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2011, Amos Shapira wrote: Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the entire process from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's servers through to building the entire distribution? I've searched

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-02 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, April 30, 2011 04:10 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: Some interesting developments coming: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/96/html/6.1_Release_Notes/index.html biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0! FUSE! control groups! a linux 2.2 feature! ipchains

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-02 Thread Christopher Chan
On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Saturday, April 30, 2011 04:10 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: Some interesting developments coming: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/96/html/6.1_Release_Notes/index.html biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0!

[CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Roland Roland
Hi All, I'm lately suffering from Quota abuse at home. believe it or not my teenagers are eating through my allowed quota. Hence, i'm thinking of setting up a centos machine to work as such: HDSL modem(natted to an onboard dhcp service for lan users) - Centos - Switch - LAN users Hw

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Roland Roland wrote: Hi All, I'm lately suffering from Quota abuse at home. believe it or not my teenagers are eating through my allowed quota. Hence, i'm thinking of setting up a centos machine to work as such: HDSL modem(natted to an onboard dhcp service for lan users) - Centos -

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited internet access. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited internet access. In Australia for example, and other remote locations have mandatory caps because they get their internet via limited throughput links (satellite or old under the see cables?), so he might

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Roland Roland wrote on Mon, 2 May 2011 15:09:00 +0300: As you noticed above, my whole connection management is relying on squid, i'm worried that it will process only traffic that's forwarded to port 80 instead of everything going through the server. any idea if thats the case? Correct.

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48:37 AM Christopher Chan wrote: biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0! Not by default, and according to the release notes only for certain Dell servers ATM. But, yes, a different way of looking at NICs is coming down the pipe. It's about time.

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread m . roth
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited internet access. Or consider checking into just what your teenagers are downloading that's gigabytes and gigabytes mark ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-02 Thread Steve Clark
On 05/02/2011 09:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48:37 AM Christopher Chan wrote: biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0! Not by default, and according to the release notes only for certain Dell servers ATM. But, yes, a different way of looking at NICs is coming down the

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-02 Thread Peter A
On Monday, May 02, 2011 09:57:19 AM Steve Clark wrote: On 05/02/2011 09:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48:37 AM Christopher Chan wrote: biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0! Not by default, and according to the release notes only for certain Dell servers ATM.

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/2/2011 8:57 AM, Steve Clark wrote: On 05/02/2011 09:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48:37 AM Christopher Chan wrote: biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0! Not by default, and according to the release notes only for certain Dell servers ATM. But, yes, a different way

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-02 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On 5/2/2011 8:57 AM, Steve Clark wrote: On 05/02/2011 09:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48:37 AM Christopher Chan wrote: biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0! Not by default, and according to the release notes only for certain Dell servers ATM. But,

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/2/2011 9:58 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: But, yes, a different way of looking at NICs is coming down the pipe. It's about time. EGADS Why? After working with FreeBSD for ten years it so nice not to have to worry is this rl0, vr0, em0, fxp0, bge0, ed0, etc in networking scripts. Why

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, May 02, 2011 09:57:19 AM Steve Clark wrote: On 05/02/2011 09:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: But, yes, a different way of looking at NICs is coming down the pipe. It's about time. EGADS Why? After working with FreeBSD for ten years it so nice not to have to worry is this rl0, vr0,

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/2/2011 10:14 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: Major networking gear does this; cisco, for instance, gives you things like FastEthernet4/47, or GigabitEthernet2/2, or TenGigabitEthernet1/0, or POS3/0, etc for networking interfaces. Having seen the PCI eth device flips before between update

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-02 Thread Steve Clark
On 05/02/2011 11:07 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 5/2/2011 9:58 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: But, yes, a different way of looking at NICs is coming down the pipe. It's about time. EGADS Why? After working with FreeBSD for ten years it so nice not to have to worry is this rl0, vr0, em0, fxp0,

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/2/2011 11:19 AM, Steve Clark wrote: Anybody know *why*? Is it based on the order of response of the NIC firmware? Certainly, were I writing the code, I'd have based it on the bus address. I think the 2.4 kernel did it that way, and was single-threaded during detection. At least I

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread David G . Miller
Roland Roland R_O_L_A_N_D@... writes: Hence, i'm thinking of setting up a centos machine to work as such: HDSL modem(natted to an onboard dhcp service for lan users) - Centos - Switch - LAN users Hw specs: 3 GB ram 3.0 core 2 duo 2 X 1 TB HDD 2 X 1 Gb NIC Your proposed

[CentOS] Removing 32bit packages from 64bit OS

2011-05-02 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi all, Somehow I mistakenly install a bunch of 32bit packages in my 64bit Centos 5.6 How do I remove those 32bit packages? Thank you. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Removing 32bit packages from 64bit OS

2011-05-02 Thread Tim Shubitz
On May 2, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, Somehow I mistakenly install a bunch of 32bit packages in my 64bit Centos 5.6 How do I remove those 32bit packages? yum remove *.i*86 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [CentOS] Removing 32bit packages from 64bit OS

2011-05-02 Thread Phil Schaffner
Fajar Priyanto wrote on 05/02/2011 12:39 PM: Hi all, Somehow I mistakenly install a bunch of 32bit packages in my 64bit Centos 5.6 How do I remove those 32bit packages? FAQ #22: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca528e9 Phil

[CentOS] running kvm and vnc same time

2011-05-02 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I am trying to run kvm (which works) on my desktop. then when I vnc into my desktop I can use everything as normal except the kvm window. It messes up. Its like the mouse isnt really when its supposed to be or something. Anyone ran into this? I am using 5.6 x86_64. Thanks, Jerry

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 05/02/11 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Correct. The easy solution is to ban bittorrent and other P2P services. not as easy as it sounds. those services are remarkably agile at dodging firewall rules ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
John R Pierce wrote: On 05/02/11 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Correct. The easy solution is to ban bittorrent and other P2P services. not as easy as it sounds. those services are remarkably agile at dodging firewall rules P2P always happens on much higher ports and if you create rules

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Drew
Correct. The easy solution is to ban bittorrent and other P2P services. not as easy as it sounds.   those services are remarkably agile at dodging firewall rules At home it's a bit easier. You can do stuff at the firewall but any parent should have their kid's computer's root password so they

Re: [CentOS] Removing 32bit packages from 64bit OS

2011-05-02 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 3 May 2011 00:39:24 +0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi all, Somehow I mistakenly install a bunch of 32bit packages in my 64bit Centos 5.6 How do I remove those 32bit packages? You do know that the default install includes a basic set of 32-bit libraries to support

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Spiro Harvey
On Mon, 2 May 2011 20:21:19 +0800 Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org wrote: Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited internet access. 1. There's no such thing as unlimited. There are always limits. You're thinking of flat rate. 2. Flat rate isn't available in every

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Drew
3. Irrespective of cost, sometimes heavy downloading can eat into a connection's bandwidth and kill the connection for everyone else. In fact, upgrading to a flat rate plan encourages this kind of behaviour more. If the ISP offer's flat rate or capped flat rate services and can't handle the

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/2/2011 4:06 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote: Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited internet access. 1. There's no such thing as unlimited. There are always limits. You're thinking of flat rate. 2. Flat rate isn't available in every country. 3. Irrespective of

Re: [CentOS] Boot speed (was: RHEL 6.1 beta)

2011-05-02 Thread Warren Young
On 5/2/2011 10:25 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: Trying to save a few seconds when rebooting a server seems pointlessto me The Linux kernel is also used in laptops/desktops Fast boots also matter for embedded systems. We integrate a series of Linux-based boxes made by another company into our

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Spiro Harvey
On Mon, 2 May 2011 14:19:13 -0700 Drew drew@gmail.com wrote: 3. Irrespective of cost, sometimes heavy downloading can eat into a connection's bandwidth and kill the connection for everyone else. In fact, upgrading to a flat rate plan encourages this kind of behaviour more. If the ISP

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread Arun Khan
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:33 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 05/02/11 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Correct. The easy solution is to ban bittorrent and other P2P services. not as easy as it sounds.   those services are remarkably agile at dodging firewall rules Layer 7 net